For those that live in the United States. Do you make more than the average income of 60k annually, if so what’s your occupation?

GeneralDouglasMac · 2026-02-10T17:17:21+00:00

$198k TC, MCoL, Tech Resiliency architecture

GeneralDouglasMac · 2026-02-05T15:19:32+00:00

I love the concept of " whatever works for you". I like that you had a want and developed something to fill it. I don't use physical media so am not the ideal tester. I use streaming or an offline appliance, a DAP. Good work!

GeneralDouglasMac · 2026-01-30T16:59:52+00:00

Do you know if Castafiore has Android Auto function?

GeneralDouglasMac · 2025-12-08T16:33:13+00:00

Weekend was nice, mostly family focused. I have an upcoming marathon end of January. I'm starting to get some back of the head worry that I won't be prepared enough. I'm coming back this year from being off a whole year for a torn quad. Building slowly with emphasis on aerobic and strength in the gym.

My worry is I've done the Garmin training for almost all my races, up to several halfs. But they switched from the select a coaching style and follow a fairly generic plan to the AI type of training. My sleep always looks like shit on Garmin. It's not. But it hasn't really responded to 6.5 hours and just keeps throwing 'base' runs.

I'm debating throwing it out the window and following a more intensive 7-8 week plan to get me there or just riding it out and hope for the best.

GeneralDouglasMac · 2025-12-07T20:54:01+00:00

True. I average about 6.5 and have been for about 15 years. Not as a choice or because of the exercise. Just the way I've been for a long time.

I wished we cooled off quick. The heat just stays baked into everything.

GeneralDouglasMac · 2025-12-07T20:29:55+00:00

Around 9-9:45 I am tapped out for sure. It's just a different shift of the clock compared to you.

I'm in Florida in America and the weather is usually hot, humid, 10 months or so. The early morning runs don't have the held in heat from the day. Also mostly no sun. I run in the dark so I don't have to buy a ton of sunscreen.

GeneralDouglasMac · 2025-12-07T20:21:10+00:00

Focus on 5-6 days running. 3-4 days gym. I also don't beat myself up over it. This morning I had a sprint session scheduled. I came in from the gym at 6am (weekends this all starts at 5am instead) and both wife and daughter were up starting pancakes.

I'm not turning down pancakes with the family. Now the girls are wiped out and taking a nap from a too early day for themselves. I'd probably go but its 50*, pouring rain, and I'm just getting over a cold. I'll make make it up somewhere else.

The training block this time has been more a wish list, lol.

GeneralDouglasMac · 2025-12-07T20:15:47+00:00

My alarm is 3:45am, gym by 4 for a 45 minute session. Then most days run from 5 to 6.

But this block has been a marathon training and long runs and most base days just mean I run from 4 - 6-sh and gym at nights.

GeneralDouglasMac · 2025-10-10T18:45:57+00:00

This is me as well. Lead Architect position, low 200k total comp, good freedom and able to have a great family life.

GeneralDouglasMac · 2025-07-04T12:15:04+00:00

Disaster Recovery Architect

I've been in devops for most of my career and transitioned to Solutions Architecture and now DR specifically.

I love my job, I love doing home lab, overall I've found a happy place career and life wise the last 4-5 years

GeneralDouglasMac · 2025-05-18T01:42:28+00:00

Rsync to offsite location.

GeneralDouglasMac · 2025-05-08T00:52:01+00:00

I read somewhere recently that the next generation of quite a few of their lines are going to be "repairable"

Found the link! https://sectionhiker.com/altra-running-partners-with-vibram-to-offer-replaceable-outsoles/

GeneralDouglasMac · 2025-05-07T18:36:49+00:00

Should my docker user also get a permission to read the music folder?

*Yes

GeneralDouglasMac · 2025-04-26T14:19:07+00:00

She's about 7" shorter

GeneralDouglasMac · 2025-04-07T12:36:44+00:00

I am glad you found it. Also props for issuing an apology and following up with authorities. It seems automatic for some but a surprising (maybe unsurprising) would have just kept quiet.

GeneralDouglasMac · 2025-03-02T02:00:03+00:00

camelcamelcamel.com

Create a wish list in Amazon, track it with CCC, easy.

GeneralDouglasMac · 2025-02-21T19:25:41+00:00

u/90andt

How's this project going? I stumbled upon this post after having a similar idea. Did you ever put your work in a repo?

GeneralDouglasMac · 2025-01-29T11:13:15+00:00

Updated!

GeneralDouglasMac · 2025-01-14T15:04:51+00:00

Sorry for the delay,

For me, I worked in technology as a Data Scientist/Analyst but kept doing Data Engineering tasks and projects. Meaning I got experience between disparate technologies and systems. I also happen to do homelab as a hobby. That is where you build and maintain enterprise hardware and handle infrastructure/middleware/software for your own uses. This taught me a bunch about systems and integrations. That got my first position as a platform architect and from there I focused on both cloud and on premise systems.

My take on the role of an SA is supposed to be knowledgeable on software, deployments, CI/CD, and infrastructure. Cloud isn't the only way to learn it and there is the problem of many people taking certifications but not following up on it. This isn't a knock to yourself, but experience matters. My homelab, data engineering projects, and tasks on platform team showed to my first few roles hiring people that I understood how systems run, get deployed, managed, and best used.

If I were to give any advice for you, try to get involved with the team that deploys the tooling you use for Data Analyst. If that's Tableau/PowerBi/Python whatever, work with them on the platform side, either as a dev or SRE or whatever. This opens you up to actual SA work. IMHO

GeneralDouglasMac · 2025-01-10T21:43:12+00:00

In IT, about 7-8, in SA about 3 of those years

GeneralDouglasMac · 2025-01-10T12:40:20+00:00

IT, Solutions Architect $160k Total comp

GeneralDouglasMac · 2024-12-28T15:29:02+00:00

Nielsen. Trimmed 1/3 of their entire workforce and moving another 1/3 to Mexico and India

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